I thank my God always for you because of the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.

Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

Each one should remain in the state in which he was called.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

Brethren, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

Or is he speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

For as woman was made from man, so also man is born of woman. And all things are from God.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of themyet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

The first man was from the earth, of dust; the second man is from heaven.

As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

As for our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the other brethren, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.